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Evan Greer - Liberty Is a Statue lyrics
Artist: Evan Greer
album: she/her/they/them
She said no, you are not a girl you are a boy.
You'd best start acting like one or i
Will tell your mom i'll tell your dad
I'll send you to the principle again
Now for the last time tell me what have you learned today?
Teacher, teacher, i learned that there is only one way
That i can live. and that's the way that they program
In the textbooks and the tv screens
Hey mom, what did i learn today in school?
I learned how to be a boy.
I learned how to be a man.
And i sang my country 'tis of thee
Because i like to sing.
And i learned that there's an 'us,' there's a 'them'
There are good guys there are bad guys
And the bad guys aren't allowed to be your friends.
And i learned all about liberty
It's a statue in a harbor near a city called new york
And i learned, statues are things that we build
To remind us of things that have died.
But wait, i'm so confused
Because they told us that sharing was good
But then i look at my own town
And the one next door
And i wonder why we don't share some of our mansions
With the four car garages?
And them in their broken-down mills
And the dirty river that runs between us
It's not safe to swim across.
They told us so on a fieldtrip
To the other side.
You'd best start acting like one or i
Will tell your mom i'll tell your dad
I'll send you to the principle again
Now for the last time tell me what have you learned today?
Teacher, teacher, i learned that there is only one way
That i can live. and that's the way that they program
In the textbooks and the tv screens
Hey mom, what did i learn today in school?
I learned how to be a boy.
I learned how to be a man.
And i sang my country 'tis of thee
Because i like to sing.
And i learned that there's an 'us,' there's a 'them'
There are good guys there are bad guys
And the bad guys aren't allowed to be your friends.
And i learned all about liberty
It's a statue in a harbor near a city called new york
And i learned, statues are things that we build
To remind us of things that have died.
But wait, i'm so confused
Because they told us that sharing was good
But then i look at my own town
And the one next door
And i wonder why we don't share some of our mansions
With the four car garages?
And them in their broken-down mills
And the dirty river that runs between us
It's not safe to swim across.
They told us so on a fieldtrip
To the other side.
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